skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i found this Wired youtube video pretty similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c-gD4mwI8A

sound engineer that worked on coachella and they talk about the switch to vertical stacks of speakers
NASA video shows what would happen if you fell into a black hole
The 'bootable container' / 'native container' space is getting really exiting, even (and especially) for desktop usecases. Atomic Fedora has had support for so called Ostree Native Containers for a while now, and that will eventually adapt `bootc` as the base layer for building and booting containers (but as of now it's not totally ready yet). VanillaOS is also working on similar things but I don't think it'll use `bootc`.

Some awesome community projects have also been born out of this space:

- https://universal-blue.org/ provides some neat Fedora images, which have one of the best Nvidia driver experiences on Linux IME, and are over all solid and dependable

- https://blue-build.org/ makes it pretty easy to build images like Universal Blue's for personal use

The best part here is really the composability; you can take a solid atomic Linux base, add whatever you like, and ship it over the air to client computers with container registries. All clients see is a diff every day, which they pull and 'apply' to be used after the next boot.
Someday the COBOL programmers are going to cross the sea to the undying lands and there's going to be a reckoning for companies that have kept legacy apps around this long.
This is a good hint. We might want to add a better description on the site, too.
My recollection of this is that LPCAMM was a proposal from Dell that they put into the JEDEC standardization process, and LPCAMM2 is the resulting standard, named that way to avoid confusion with the non-standard LPCAMM that Dell trialed on a small number of commercial systems.
As a homeowner I get to deduct mortgage interest in taxes. As a renter I don't.

If a corporation decides to own commercial interest. Principal + interest + taxes. + maintenance. Everything other than profits gets to be deducted. Renters don't.

Trump cutting corporate income tax from 31 to 21% flat made the wealth jump up to the top. Then Biden came and pumped 5 Trillion in the economy with huge PPP payouts to corporations whose owners were already wealthy. Wealth begets wealth. Rich get Richer.

The current 20-30 somethings are the first generate in the entire history of this nation to build less wealth than their parents at the same age.

The only people in Seattle and SF making it at 20-30 is if they work at BigTech getting $500k in total combined comp.

Everyone else is fucked.

Even if Powell holds the interest rates high, congress continues to spend in trillions.

More on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E

Canada, UK, Australia, NZ aren't that much better. The housing pressure is very real.

We must really hate our kids. If the economy won't crush them, global warming will slowly crush their grand kids.

I respect every couple who decide not to have kids. It's a sane financial choice in current economic conditions.
In the textarea input. If you set textarea maxlength to X and the user is not aware of it and types a message over X, what happens?
>Apple CPUs are objectively leagues ahead of their competition in the mobile space

This is a lie. The latest Android SoCs are just as powerful as the A series.

>Because even a 4 years old IPhone still has specs that don't lag behind by much the equivalent Android phones, I still receive the latest OS updates, and because frankly, Android OS is mess.

Samsung and Google offer 7 years of OS and security updates. I believe that beats the Apple policy.
They can be whatever they want. The point is the Dutch don't control Kyrgyzstan not that the Dutch should wait for Kyrgyzstan to agree to how the Dutch want to live/regulate themselves or that the populations themselves have different importance.
The important point is that if one already has fossil fuel plants, you have to compare the marginal cost of operating those plants vs. the full cost (including capital cost) of replacing them with renewables (CO2 costs included if any). Otherwise, they'll just keep operating the fossil fuel plants. Eventually the fossil fuel plants will age out and be replaced in an apples-to-apples comparison, but that could take decades.
How do you know ChatGPT explained it to you correctly? How do you know it didn't give you a wrong explanation that sounds plausible to a lay person?
I didn't know about caltopo. So I can just give you my two cents from tinkering with it a little just now.

caltopo has a lot more map data with all the different overlays you can toggle. Also, you can add many more objects (polygons, sectors etc.) besides a simple route with waypoints. wanderer's route creation tool has been added only recently and is still quite rudimentary. It has automatic routing though (you define two points and the route between them is calculated automatically based on your selected mode of transport).

wanderer excels at cataloguing your trail data. You can attach a lot more meta information like photos, dates, comments or a summit logbook. It also allows you to search and filter your trails with many customisation options.

Lastly, and that is very much biased as well as personal preference: it looks a bit sleeker ;)
For business-scale model work, sure.

But you can get an M2 Ultra with 192GB of UMA for $6k or so. It's very hard to get that much GPU memory at all, let alone at that price. Of course the GPU processing power is anemic compared to a DGX Station 100 cluster, but the mac is $143,000 less.
The power of narrative made personal. If we aren't plucked chickens we are storytellers. The venue and media have changed, from oral tradition around a fire to photons sliding down fibers and fingers dancing on keyboards.

Narrative is a powerful and primitive force for humans, how we've always sought to impose structure and sense on events, from history to religion, to the mundane everyday and the trip abroad. Our brains crave narrative and invent it in a vacuum or as the interstitial bond between disconnected random events.

We can now own our public narrative and mythologize a heroic and extraordinary existence divorced from banal reality of paying bills and waiting in queues and going to the washroom and changing lightbulbs. Only the highlight reel makes it to prime time.

Social media are campaigns to seize control of narrative, to bring structure and synthetize relationships, to make sense of the world.

Predates print and electronic media, predates recorded history, a paradigm shift through Mcluhan's lens (always preferred his precursor, Innis).

Fascinating on a meta level, this comment being an example of its own thesis.
The compression connector looks flimsier than a mezzanine so it should probably be a last resort for multi-gigahertz single-ended signaling.
Coordination is hard?
I’ve always wondered what he thought on the way down.
Adjusted for inflation, housing was significantly cheaper in 1990 than it is today.
The yearly subscription is for publishing your app on Apple’s store and definitely helps keep some garbage out. Running your own app on your own device is basically solved with free third party solutions now (see AltStore and since a newer method I can’t recall atm)
Having worked with internal company web components, I despise them. In a bureaucracy, bad and buggy web components are a blight because, unlike a bad React component,ad hoc fixing them requires a mess of searching and tons of boilerplate. I accept this news with mourning.
> CE/CS intern > tasked with implementing stuff in clouds > hired as Jr SWE, but still tasked with doing those devopsy things that the real devops team doesn't wanna do > jump a few times, each time still taking on devopsy stuff > Sr DevOps Admin

Yea this is mostly the path I took. I had a hybrid lead/swe role that ended up me picking up sysadm stuff due to a weak DevOps team, then my next role was DevOps. Anecdotally, I find there's a large difference in quality of the engineer depending on which of those particular paths they took that's not usually well represented by salary ranges (although if you possess a CS degree jobs are MUCH easier to get IME).
Nice! Same-same-but-different shameless plug: https://github.com/jrz/container-shell boot a shell into your container and mount the working/project dir
What Linux setup do you recommend for 128GB of GPU memory?
WebGPU and many other features on iOS are unimplemented or implemented in half-assed or downright broken ways.

These features work on all the modern desktop browsers and on Android tho!
Much of the OP addresses that question.
I watched this one recently, and was going to share it here. I'm not in the field, but this looks like a nice demo of the current launch systems UX, unlike the tens that are dated to the early 80s.
Winter called. It disagrees with your rosy assessment of the Texas grid's greatness.
Another cool thing you can do with line arrays is beam steering, you can direct the sound to a certain extent. There are tradeoffs, but I always thought that was pretty damn magical.
> Still, I’m conflicted, because a solid DSA understanding is incredibly helpful at times. At the very least, a solid understanding of the commonly used data structures, how to transform data structures, a good understanding of memory allocation with respect to code and runtime, reference vs copy… All things that if not understood, can cause serious problems.

The same screen can be done with much simpler problems. Or direct questions.
Foundation models will be the new .so files.
> I am still using a IPhone released in 2020 with absolutely no appreciable slow down or losses in perceived performance.

My Pixel 4a here is also going strong, only the battery is slowly getting worse. I mean, it's 2024, do phones really still get slow? The 4a is now past android updates, but that was promised after 3 years. But at 350 bucks, it was like 40% less than the cheapest iPhone mini at that time.
Guix did that too, right?
From other cases I'm aware of it sounds like the living twin tends to follow suit not long after. Chang and Eng Bunker died on the same day, and that was several centuries ago, but I can't imagine modern medicine has done much to change things.

Plus, I'm not normally one for woo, but witnessing the death of your conjoined twin seems like a situation where you might truly die of fright (or a broken heart). Just awful to think about.
So much this. Bouncing early design ideas (informally) off other stakeholders or at least more experienced engineers can save SO much pain. The reverse of that is true, too: giving early feedback on other people's designs can give them the insights THEY need not to inflict pain on YOU.
Privacy in the Age of Panopticoins
There's no practical difference between $10m with no interest, versus $10m where any interest which puts the total holding over $10m is confiscated. I think people such a situation would put their money into low-risk, easy-access investments.

(And, of course, it would make sense if the $10m maximum was inflation-linked; and then as such it would make sense to invest to maintain the capital against inflation.)
Demystifying Vision: Optical Illusions Illuminate Neural Pathways
Is that really applicable? I thought the FCC only had authority over these kinds of stations because the airwaves are a limited public resource.
Is it my imagination or does it look like some of that equipment must be specialized for such a small environment?
It's also faster (7500 vs. 5600).
If you rip off the gzip headers and footers, DEFLATE applied to a small string only has 10 bits of overhead, 2 bytes with padding.

The default Huffman table is not suited for this use case, and a Huffman table in general is a waste of space these days, but the overhead is very small and can be reduced to nothing if you know the original string length.
> People build.

If they are allowed to.

Most major cities are now permit backlogged. Could be years until you get to build.

The number of home builders in US are falling down like dominoes. When there is less competition, we get higher prices.
This is a new one on me!

never heard of it.

Are we talking a turd weighing device.

It seems so messy, I doubt very much if anyone will take it up as a hobby or recommend it to anyone.
I have three devices: personal laptop (thinkpad/linux), work macbook, personal android.

It's absolutely insane trying to get exactly the one I want connected to my earphones. Basically, I have to make sure two of them have bluetooth off, so the third one reliably connects. Otherwise, sometimes left earphone will connect to one device, and right to other.

This is a deficiency of the protocol that there is no sane way to do this.
Maaaaaybe, but I’m not ditching them. When I’m interviewing someone, I try to set them at ease. I’m not here to spot typos. I’m trying trying to trick you. I want to see how you think about problem solving, and I’m cheering for tou. I want you to be The One!

At a prior job I was the person who asked candidates to write fizzbuzz, and it was much more of a filter than I ever would have suspected. One senior engineer, from a company you know, with a master’s in compsci, couldn’t write a for-loop for the life of ‘em. Another QA engineer wanted to write tests for their implementation by capturing stdout and comparing it to a hardcoded string.

Me: What if you want to test the output of 1,000,000,005?

Them: We could store the test output as a file on disk instead of a string!

Me: Well, ok, suppose you only want to test that one specific value and not all the others?

Them: Ah, got it! We could discard all but the last line of stdout and just look at that.

Me: Can you think of a way to structure your code so that we could just calculate the output of one single number without all the numbers before it?

Them: Uhhh...

Those are 2 examples out of many. I honest to god don’t know how some people managed to build their resumes while not knowing how to do the simplest thing in their field imaginable. Imagine you were interviewing cardiologists and a solid 1/3 of them had never heard of blood. What? How? How did you get to this point?

And that’s why I’d never hire someone until I’ve collected evidence that they personally can turn ideas into code. If you can’t wrap your brain around fizzbuzz, you’re gonna have a hell of a time when a customer gives you a change request.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory – and surpass it
If you can't explain your thoughts out loud then you're going to have a difficult time working anywhere.
But M3 Max should able to support up to 128gb.
> You do know that in the case of 2001, the movie and book were done simultaneously, right? There’s no failure of adaptation because it wasn’t one. It makes no sense to fault the movie by comparing with the book in this case.

Yes, I know that. I don't see how it makes it a nonsensical comparison though. One form was done well, the other incompetently. It's not like they marketed it as "hey, you really need both for the full experience".

>> He failed at the _one thing_ a film is supposed to do.

> Which is what? Entertain? Make a profit? Be culturally relevant to an extent that is still felt decades later?

To convey something in the audio/visual format. It doesn't get more basic. Whether that's for pure entertainment, artistic intent, whatever.

> There is no rule which says a movie has to be a coherent linear story that spoon feeds you to be significant, good, or artistically relevant.

Neither is there anything saying that you're safe from criticism if your work isn't coherent either. There was a very clear, coherent story to 2001, and Kubrick failed to convey it.
Everyone seems to agree live code interviews are both terrible and necessary.

I'm a self-taught coder without a degree. I guess it may be extra frustrating for graduated candidates where your hard-earned degree buys you no credibility for skill.

Kinda similar, after ten years of lead development coding every day in the enterprise on huge projects I still don't get a pass on the code interviews.

I will say, if you're trying to career pivot and apply for a management or product or sales engineering role etc., lots of technical experience does carry weight in interviews.
Published here: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay
The data itself is ordered (which is why the task is to print them in order), but the order you receive the values is can happen in any order (ie the processing was split into multiple threads and each thread is posting back the results from the work).
Even Sanderson's "adult" fiction can read as incredibly immature at times. Every character seems to have a caricature of a mental illness. Every thought and feeling they experience seems to tie back to it, and it derails the story while taking away from the excellent world-building. I loved the Stormlight Archives to start with, but they became more and more "woke" (as much as I despise using that word) as time went on.

If you're interested in returning to fiction but through the lens of an adult - a little grittier - I'd recommend Joe Abercrombie, Pierce Brown, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dan Abnett, and Andrzej Sapkowski.
I saw a similar one Super Mario, where finding a glitch in a warp tunnel triggered an out of bounds read, and prior joysticking wrote the appropriate bytes just beyond the buffer to trigger whatever they wanted.

There was another one in a Pokemon game where you had to do a bunch of buy/ sell transactions to prep memory just so, then overflow an item count to trigger a jump.

Truly fantastic stuff. Someday aliens will attack and these antics will save us.
This is a remarkably real view of the Minuteman Launch Control Center in the early to mid-80s for sure. The accompanying audio is realistic as well except all six comm systems would be blaring at once and several printers would be clacking away… It was very intense, demanding job.

I was a Launch Control Officer for five years in the mid-80s out of FE Warren AFB in Cheyenne WY. My squadron was the 320th Strategic Missile Squadron with all 5 capsules and 50 missiles were physically in western NE, with the furthest over 100 miles away in Sidney NE. I spent 335 days underground over the 5 year period.
What I've seen on Costco scanners looks identical to the menus in Koerber/Highjump's "Advantage Platform". If they're anything like us they are just running a telnet client on a ruggedized Android decvice. Once you use the system for a bit you build muscle memory and don't even need the menu text most of the time.
> a dedicated Nvidia rig

I am honestly shocked Nvidia has been allowed to maintain their moat with cuda. It seems like AMD would have a ton to gain just spending a couple million a year to implement all the relevant ML libraries with a non-cuda back-end.
It's doesn't happen organically. It is usually designed by city planners (or equivalent functions depending on the city). It makes most sense to have mixture of residential and commercial buildings in the same area so that there is no foot traffic vacuum depending on the time of the day. Foot traffic vacuum creates space for potential crimes.
(e.g, if you separate commercial and residential, the commercial area will be more likely crime ridden at night and residential area will be more prone to crime during the day).
To add to this, John Perry Barlow, one of the Dead's two main lyricists, co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
I agree that cat centric life is awful. However "you are traffic" is not the whole picture, not all traffic is created equal. Some people are just naturally adept at making traffic.
https://archive.is/Q8pcR
Congrats on the launch! This is huge, and it's really cool to see a cloud provider moving this direction - auction pricing for customers so that you always know you're getting the best deal on the market, while providing 100% utilization for you :)

I'm curious what some of the numbers mean: e.g. what does 688/1464 GPUs available indicate in the left gray box? What about there being 1040 GPUs in light gray, and 8 in dark gray?
Despite international hires, TikTok is Chinese at its core
Sure, but in 1995 you could also get a nice house for like 40k. An equivalent home today costs about 400k.

8% interest on 40k is only $63k interest paid (A 1995 home had a total cost of $123k)

8% interest on 400k is $633k (that same home in 2024 has a total cost of $1.2 million dollars)
Inference on the edge is a lot like JS - just drop a crap ton of data to the front end, and let it render.
As an Apple alum, I can agree with everything you’ve said.
So the new iPad & M4 was just some weekend project that they shrugged and decided to toss over to their physical retail store locations to see if anyone still bought physical goods eh
I apologize for being oblique and kind of snarky.

My point was that it's interesting how we can frame a service business "extracting fees" to imply wrongdoing. When it's pretty normal for all services to charge ongoing fees for ongoing delivery.
(2022)

The date is important because it was written before the Ukraine-Russia war's use of drones ramped up. The article doesn't mention drones (UAVs) afaict - how to use them in attack and defense, how to protect yourself - which is today a major omission.
Something to keep in mind with every AI startup is that they’re trying to skate to where the puck will be in a year or two. You could still be right, but it’s worth considering what happens to any particular use case if the model gets 2 or 3x smarter.
Ignored this line by me huh? Convenient. Or, to you your word, suspicious.

> To claim you're living the lifestyle you prefer, great.
At 9 (and before) i had bookit; where if you chose one of many of the sponsored books at the school (or public) library you got a personal pan pizza coupon.

An interpretation is book cos have cut physical benefit advertising for cents on the dollar internet advertisements.
I feel like I read this post (can’t be) or a similar one (must be it) not too long ago.

The fact that every mastodon instance tries to get the meta data of your latest post will bring any non-static site on a cheap VPS to its knees I guess
That seems more like Distrobox to me(?) https://distrobox.it/
Hollywood also appears institutionally capable of making movies where the actors enunciate properly, where the effect soundtrack isn't louder than the speech, and where nobody is mumbling.

I've given up on them. Sure, fine, that's not how people talk in real life. Whatever. I want to hear what they have to say, otherwise what's even the point?
In the ST:TNG episode, it was about a chess-like game, so even if you had all the information, still you could lose making no mistakes.

But in real life, having all the relevant information is something that may be pretty uncommon. Specially when dealing with other people (players or not) making decisions, maybe in a future, maybe based/influenced or not on how you decided to move, or involving things that you don't know that you don't know.

So you make the best decision based on the information you have available, and the end result may end poorly because things that you didn't know, or that didn't happen yet, or because unpredictable agents deciding and acting along the way, will develop.
This kind of place was best captured by opening scene of Wargames:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6aCpS0-yls
Yes, this should definitely be the standard.